Friday, March 23, 2012

Pop culture search
engine ChaCha.com included me among the “best Hispanic writers in the
beginning of the 21st century”
alongside Isabel Allende, Paul Coelho and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It’s not
every day the author of just two novels sees his name listed with literary
legends like these. (Maybe my mom is
secretly moonlighting at ChaCha.)

So it seems I'm famous now. Too bad more people don't know that -- especially book buyers.

Seriously, though. Being included in such fine company is the result of those in the industry who put their trust in my work and the friends who have been so generous in their support. My deepest thanks to all of you.

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My novels in brief

America Libre,House Dividedand Pancho Land imagine a nightmarish, not-too-distant future when tensions between Hispanic separatists and Anglo supremacists ignite an ethnic conflict that leads to an armed insurrection seeking to redraw the borders of the United States. A cautionary tale, The Class H Trilogy is a wake-up call to the dangers of bigotry and extremism in a growing ethnic gulf.

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